Report: Global Catholic Population Grows as Number of Priests Falls
The world’s Catholic population is on the rise at the same time the number of priests has fallen, a report released Thursday by the Vatican shows.

The world’s Catholic population is on the rise at the same time the number of priests has fallen, a report released Thursday by the Vatican shows.
Holy Bible sales are soaring in the UK with publishers crediting the rising spirituality of Gen Z as driving the revival of interest embracing the ancient text in an increasingly unstable world.
Christianity’s years-long decline in the U.S. may be slowing and could have leveled off, a poll released Wednesday by Pew Research study suggests.
Over 2,000 students pledged their lives to Christ at the University of Kentucky where over 8,000 people have been joining a revival.
President Donald Trump’s proposed National Garden of American Heroes will play host to sculpture’s honoring “great figures of America’s history” with the late Rev. Billy Graham destined to be among them.
Gay rights activist Father James Martin has renewed his attacks on Catholic Vice President JD Vance, insisting Vance does not understand the purpose of religious freedom.
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is still standing up for himself in the face of media criticism of his 2024 commencement speech.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes won the AFC Championship Game on Sunday night, and he also won the postgame interview.
Several members of the victorious Ohio State Buckeyes openly praised God after winning college football’s national title on Sunday.
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall wants to meet the teenage assailant who shot him in an attempted robbery before the start of the season so he can “forgive” him and “get that weight” off his chest.
The aunt of Tiger Bech, the ex-Princeton football player killed during the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans, is speaking out.
When actress, recording artist, and award-winning singer Mary Millben reflects on her life, she sees a blessed journey marked by what God has called her to do. With a rich coloratura voice that soars with dramatic verve, Mary has traveled the globe, bringing rousing emotion to her rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” She has had the honor of performing for four consecutive U.S. presidents — and very likely in just a few weeks, a fifth one when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office for his second term.
The University of Notre Dame is inviting fans who are in New Orleans to attend the Sugar Bowl to join together in prayer for the victims.
“Ultimately, God is good,” In-N-Out President and CEO Lynsi Snyder said during an interview with PragerU’s Marissa Streit.
A religious release program focusing on “satanic studies” is kicking off in some schools in Marysville, Ohio, as an alternative to Bible-based instruction.
Bible sales are booming. As the world struggles through a litany of threats, upheavals, war and rumors of war, the ancient text has seen a 22 percent jump in sales across 2024.
President-elect Donald Trump thanked God after his tremendous victory last week.
More than 500 Belgians are asking to be removed from the baptismal registry after Pope Francis’ recent trip to Luxembourg and Belgium, in which he harshly rebuked efforts to decriminalize voluntary abortion and referred to doctors who perform the procedure as “contract killers.”
Former CNN host Don Lemon suggested that Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary, was a “sort of gay guy” who smuggled her to Bethlehem to avoid persecution for being pregnant and unmarried.
Atlanta Hawks player AJ Griffin announced he was quitting the NBA this year, only two years after being drafted. Now, the 21-year-old explains why he suddenly quit the pros: He’s quitting to follow Jesus.
Ravens tight end Mark Andrews is crediting God for telling him to put on his seat belt only minutes before a frightening car wreck.
Harrison Butker heard from the critics earlier this year after defending Christian values at a commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas.
However, NFL Hall of Famer Tony Dungy is not one of them.
Americans who sit back and allow the erosion of parental rights and the targeting of children for radical ideologies and sexualization will “become the purveyors of evil” in the United States, PragerU CEO Marissa Streit told Breitbart News in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
Artificial intelligence has created a striking image based on the image of the authenticated shroud, representing what Jesus is believed to have looked like.
Comedian and veteran TV star Tim Allen has never been shy about sharing his Christian faith and on Tuesday used social media to profess his love of reading the Bible.
A team of scientists analyzing the Shroud of Turin, a large piece of cloth believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ Himself, have determined that the shroud does indeed date back to the time of Jesus’ life.
The American Catholic Church is seeing a prolonged surge of conservative young priests, leaving the aging and far more liberal Vatican II generation with no replacements.
U.S. Olympian Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone dominated the 400-meter hurdles Thursday, and afterward she gave all the credit to God.
Those who thought $25 million would soften Harrison Butker’s views on Christianity’s place in our lives got a very disappointing answer.
Former President Donald Trump issued a message of faith on Sunday following an assassination attempt that almost succeeded during a rally in Pennsylvania, exhorting Americans to remain strong and determined.
Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla has once again shown that he leads from a Christian perspective after being seen in a t-shirt reading, “But First Let Me Thank God,” as his team celebrated their NBA Finals win on Monday night.
Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla, a devout Catholic, is already planning what he wants to do after the NBA finals, and he is proud to say that it all revolves around his deep Catholic faith.
Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla completely rejected a woke, race-based question from the media on Saturday, turning it into one about faith.
Christians must “wake up” to what is happening in politics, society, and culture and tell people the truth about what is happening in the world, Pastor Allen Jackson of World Outreach Church in Rutherford County, Tennessee, said during a recent appearance on Breitbart News Daily about his new show “Allen Jackson NOW: Christian Wisdom for a Struggling Nation” which offers a perspective on the day’s events from a Biblical worldview.
Television personality and celebrity personal trainer Jillian Michaels has challenged the notion Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker should lose his job and be replaced by a woman for the simple “crime” of holding steadfast Christian beliefs.
Scottish film star Brian Cox slammed religion for leading humanity into “all kinds of horror” on Monday.
Acclaimed actor Brian Cox, who played Logan Roy on the critical darling HBO series Succession, bashed religion in an interview saying it has led to “all kinds of horror” while calling the Holy Bible “one of the worst books ever written.”
Comedian and Hollywood actor Russell Brand has confirmed he was baptized as a Christian on Sunday as he had promised.
After his big Masters win, Scottie Scheffler insisted that his real win was being saved by Jesus Christ and credited faith for his blessings.
Hollywood film star Ryan Phillippe said this week that playing a Christian missionary in his latest movie Prey reignited his quest for God.